Sonriza (Riza) Rasco is a fantastic all-rounder, an entrepreneur with a Ph.D in bioengineering and of course a very avid traveller. This year, despite the pandemic, she has managed to visit 40 countries in total which certainly proves her tenacity and drive....
Interviews
Discover Unconventional Travel with Offbeat Travelling with Bart van Eijden
Offbeat Travelling is what many of us like to do, and it is also the title of Bart's website - full of low-budget tips for travel to fascinatingly unusual places. Wagah border - Pakistan-India Bart, tell us something about your early years and how...
Fady Hanna: Exploring the World Against All Odds
Fady Hanna is well known in the traveller community of his native Egypt and for good reason - he has already been to 123 UN countries which is no mean feat considering that his passport offers one of the least travel freedoms in the world. We are very happy to...
Chapati: The World’s Most Adorable Traveler – A Canine Journey Across Borders
We are delighted to be celebrating our 200th issue by interviewing what is surely the most adorable traveller we have had the pleasure to discover! Meet Chapati, the Indian-Ukrainian canine who has been around the world more than your average human... For the...
Bengt Hildebrand: Nomadic Adventures of a Doctor
Bengt Hildebrand is one of the few travellers who visited his last UN country in 2020 - before all lockdowns - thereby joining an impressive number of Swedes who have visited every country. This globetrotting doctor and avid NomadMania fan shares his adventures...
Melika Bokaie Inspiring Journey: Solo Travelling to 20 UN Countries at 22
In NomadMania a count of 20 UN countries does not usually provoke surprise or admiration ... but when this is the count of a 22-year old Iranian woman travelling solo for the past 30+ months, then this is a whole different story. Finding her dream after an...
Julian K: Traveling the World with his Family
Most of our members travel either alone or as a couple but today we’re catching up with the Kramer family, based in Luxembourg, who do most of their travelling around the world together, father Julian, mother Anna-Marie and two teenagers, Charlotte - who just...
Youngest Spaniard to Conquer Every UN Country: Alvaro’s Journey
Under our rubric of The Professionals, today we chat with the youngest Spaniard to have visited every UN country. Alvaro Rojas has turned toward making his travels a main source of income, with his Instagram being his livelihood in the past year or so. He tells...
Audrey Walsworth: First Woman we know to Visit Every UN Country and TCC List Completer
For those who are truly in the know, Audrey Walsworth needs no introduction. In 2005, she completed every UN country, becoming the first woman we know of to do so, and she topped this feat by completing the then TCC list in 2009. Taking her first trip abroad at...
Meet the biggest traveller of 2020 so far! Josh K.
We do hope you all regularly visit our Statistics section; if you fill in your profile through 'My Trips' or at least put in your date of travel, you will be counted in the cool statistic 'Nomads with Most visited regions in YEAR'. For 2020, given the current...
Exploring the Unseen: Ayoub Shares the Untold Travel Tales of Syria, His Unforgettable Homeland
We usually interview people who have been to very many countries, but Ayoub Smadi today is the exact opposite - he has never left his native Syria. Working for one of the major travel agencies in the country, he gives us a feel for the travel experience in his...
Jaime Alemán: The First Central American to Conquer Every UN Country
66 year-old Jaime Alemán from Panama arrived in Nauru in early March, making it his 193rd UN country. He certainly managed the feat by the skin of his teeth before the world came to a standstill. A former ambassador of his country to the U.S, Jaime becomes not...